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Cannabis is a flowering plant that has fibrous stalks used for paper, clothing, rope, and building materials leaves, flowers, and roots used for medicinal purposes, and seeds used for food and fuel oil. Cannabis leaves and flowers are consumed in several forms: dried flower buds or various types of concentrated, loose, or pressed resin extracted from the flowers or leaves through a variety of methods. Once mature, the plant’s leaves and flowers are covered with trichomes, tiny glands of resinous oil containing cannabinoids and terpenes that provide physical and psychoactive effects.READ MORE

WANT TO KEEP MEDICAL MARIJJUANA ACCESSIBLE TO THOSE WHO NEED IT? YOU CAN!

Who is going to control the multi-billion dollar Cannabis industry around the globe? Be sure to FOLLOW THE MONEY.

More and more countries are taking steps to legalize medical marijuana. The various legal proposals all sound like they will help this medicine get to those who need it, but in fact there are many competing interests scrambling to take control of this multi-billion dollar opportunity.

Will the medicine be affordable and accessible? You can help ensure that it is!

Watch and share this short message that unpacks the fine print of the various initiatives here in the middle of North America as policies here begin their cascade around the world. READ MORE

The Homemade Cannabis Oil Recipe that People are Using to Treat Cancer The re-entrance of marijuana into the main stream consciousness has come on the back of revelations that the herb has massive cancer curing potential.

The cannabinoids, molecules within the plant, enter the human body on consumption and bind with receptors that are already in place. Our bodies are made to handle this stuff.

The resulting endocannabinoids that are released by the human body perform a variety of positive effects, including regulation of cell growth.

The fact that we have receptors for the chemical seems to indicate that we are evolved to eat the plant and the positive impact the chemicals have on our system further implies that.

One of the most popular ways to consume the plant is by smoking it, but the excess chemicals from the fire can cause unnecessary damage. Rick Simpson, a pioneer in the medical cannabis field, has mastered the art of cannabis oil production and released his technique to the world for free.

You can support Rick on his website; here is a condensed version of the process of making hemp oil.

Start with one ounce of dried herb. One ounce will typically produce 3-4 grams of oil, although the amount of oil produced per ounce will vary strain to strain. A pound of dried material will yield about two ounces of high quality oil.READ MORE

The Cannabis Writings: Can Marijuana Treat Depression and PTSD?
By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness

As the medicinal benefits of marijuana continue to be brought to light, people with an array of ailments are being given the opportunity to treat their symptoms in a way that seems unconventional but was actually common throughout history.

For centuries, the cannabis plant has been used for various purposes including medicine, and our society is finally learning what many ancient civilizations already knew. They put their knowledge to use, and it’s time for us to do the same.

Unfortunately, the plant’s medical use is only allowed in states where it’s legal, and patients who require this medicine are forced to go without it or risk legal consequences. These are law abiding citizens who have no interest in breaking society’s rules, but they have to break the law just to get what they need.

Marijuana’s medicinal benefits aren’t limited to the body, and evidence is beginning to show that it helps the mind too. This is indicated by the endocannabinoids in our brain, and everything’s usually okay if our endocannabinoid levels are where they’re meant to be. READ MORE

Great news!웃 유 ☏ A provision ending the federal prohibition on medical marijuana, banning federal agents from policing its users or raiding dispensaries in any state or district where it is legal, was just passed by Congress.

The provision can be found in Congress’ new 1,603-page spending plan.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA may be quiet about this latest news, but you can guarantee the little passage will radically alter the way America treats – and views – the use of medical marijuana. READ MORE

This is part of The Cannabis Writings, a series of articles on the Culture of Awareness.

In previous reports, we learned how marijuana can help with conditions like depression, PTSD and insomnia. Now, we’ll look at some of the plant’s medicinal benefits from the perspective of people who’ve tried it in hopes of finding relief from relentless physical or mental illness.

While cannabis probably wouldn’t work for everyone looking to treat an illness, for some, it lessens their pain and puts them in a relaxed, euphoric state where they can meditate and forget about their troubles for a while. This has a positive long-term effect, and this is where the idea of marijuana as medicine comes in.

When someone’s health starts to noticeably improve because of daily or long-term cannabis use (especially someone who never used it before they became sick), to deprive them of it would be to deprive them of what is obviously medicine and should be taken seriously, not persecuted or mocked.

Take, for example, the effect marijuana had on Erowid user ‘Ziggie’. At the time of writing about his experiences, Ziggie had been a cannabis smoker for about three years and had suffered from depression for the last two due to being forced to move from home and not having many friends.

He stopped smoking when his depression worsened, and taking up exercise helped considerably. Through his newfound love of exercise, he met new friends who reintroduced him to cannabis.

After trying it for the first time in a while, he felt his clarity and levelheadedness return. He didn’t feel intoxicated at first, but he felt normal again. His motivation began to return, and when the plant’s antidepressant effects wore off, he used it again and they returned in earnest.

He decided to start using it regularly, and now, it’s incredibly beneficial to his mental wellbeing. Whereas he was depressed and deluded before picking it back up, he’s now able to socialize, maintain a relationship, be a part of a sports team and make extra money.

This is the opposite of how he was living before, and he’s thankful that cannabis is on this planet for our use even though it’s illegal.

Now, consider what Erowid user ‘Phil E. Drifter’ has to say about cannabis. Phil has tinnitus, which causes intense ringing in his ears, and he figures he got it from listening to loud music in his headphones as a kid.

He was never warned that listening to music too loud in headphones could damage his ears, and he thought the ringing was normal until it got so bad that he had to do some research.

This led him to discover that he has tinnitus, and when he started smoking cannabis in college, he noticed that the ringing in his ears would go from unbearable to manageable.

Now, if his tinnitus starts bothering him, he uses his medicine and breathes a sigh of relief as the ringing decreases. I don’t know if any studies have been done on marijuana’s potential to treat tinnitus, but it could be one of many things the plant helps with.

If this isn’t enough, consider the story of Erowid user ‘Skrtliftr’, who suffers from Epilepsy. She always wanted to try marijuana, but she was afraid it would worsen her seizures, which she already experienced about 4 times a year.

She wanted to wait until she could do it around someone she was comfortable with, and she eventually found someone she trusted; her neighbor. She became paranoid and felt ticks in her legs the second time she tried it, which, to her, were indications of an oncoming seizure.

Her neighbor calmed her by explaining that the ticks she was feeling had to do with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and not an oncoming seizure as she had feared. This calmed her anxiety and allowed her to enjoy the plant’s therapeutic effects, and she’d go on to use it daily.

After five years, she still smokes cannabis every day and she claims her seizures have almost completely stopped.

She’s only had one seizure in the past five years, and at the time of sharing her story, she was in talks with her doctor to reduce her dosage of anticonvulsant pills. With the help of cannabis, she hopes to completely wean herself off of the pills.

Now, consider the story of Erowid user ‘Panface’, who was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis as a teenager and, as a result, would have to go to the bathroom about ten times a day.

The only way to get rid of ulcerative colitis is to have your colon removed, and he too was unsure about trying cannabis because he was worried it would worsen his condition. He eventually met someone who had a more bearable form of ulcerative colitis, and this person told him that there didn’t seem to be a significant difference in his condition after using the plant.

Nonetheless, Panface decided to give it a try. It helped significantly, and as he started using it more often, he noticed that had to go to the bathroom much less. He confirmed that the cannabis was helping by quitting for a while and finding that his condition’s severity returned, and now, he smokes once a night and has to run to the bathroom less.

It’s a shame that he (and other people who use cannabis medicinally) would get in trouble if caught with his medicine in states where it’s illegal, and people all across the world have to deal with the possibility of legal trouble for the medicinal use of this healing plant.

Our final account is from Erowid user ‘Malkie’, who suffers from insomnia and used to be kept up for days at a time, unable to rest or get some piece of mind. His lack of sleep even caused hallucinations, and like most others, he turned to modern medicine for treatment.

He started taking large doses of Benadryl, and when he consulted his doctor on his alarming lack of sleep, he was prescribed Trazodone, an antidepressant. His life was starting to improve before he was put on it, but it took a turn for the worse from there.

The medicine worked a little but numbed his emotions and turned him into a zombie. It eventually stopped working altogether, causing much worse psychological harm.

He started to think about suicide for the first time in his life, and as his mental conditioned worsened, he was given different medications to try which, unsurprisingly, all made it worse. Celexa was the most harmful medication, and it caused him to “flip out” and lose control of his body.

He also had wild hallucinations, and this proved to him that the all the different medicine was responsible for his condition getting so bad. It was also increasing his thoughts of suicide, and he quickly got rid of all of it.

He then found out about cannabis edibles and decided to give them a try.

Nothing else had worked up to that point, and since he had nothing to lose, he figured he’d test it out to see how it’d affect him. Aside from the edibles, he also learned about a purple indica strain that provides a heavy, almost sedated feeling.

He couldn’t afford the indica strain, so he focused on edibles. His cooking started out humble – oil, tea, etc. – and he eventually learned how to make cookies, brownies and all kinds of appetizing cannabis-infused foods.

They worked wonders; he was relaxed, he could sleep and he would wake up rested, satisfied and happy. He eventually learned how to grow the purple indica strain along with making edibles, and they work better for him than anything ever did.

The countless people using marijuana as medicine have the right to use and grow it despite what the governments says or tries to do, and the War on Drugs is making good people into criminals just for using a plant that helps them.

For this reason and so many others, we have to stand up for the cannabis plant and the people who need it.

What we do to treat pain or relax at the end of a long day is not the government’s business, and our right to utilize a plant known throughout history for its medicinal, psychological and spiritual benefits means nothing we don’t stand up for it.

To stand up for cannabis is to stand up for freedom, so let’s make our voices heard and spread far and wide the stories of how this plant has helped people. It’ll help us a lot more when we’re all open to it, and in time, it’ll finally be understood as a gift to humanity.

Cannabis Oil Cures 3-Year-Old Boy of Cancer After Doctors Gave Him 48 Hours to Live by John Vibes
A young boy named Landon Riddle was diagnosed with Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he only had an 8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two.

“His whole chest was full of leukemia tumors, which is why he couldn’t breathe. They started him on chemo, but told us that he probably wasn’t going to make it,” his mother, Sierra Riddle said.

After two months of Chemotherapy, Landon became sick and would refuse to eat. According to his mother, he would vomit up to 50 times a day, and the doctors eventually lost hope, seeing no other solution than Chemotherapy. READ MORE

Not too long ago, a 50-year-old man from Illinois was diagnosed with “incurable inoperable” lung and pericardial heart sac cancer. The doctors told him he had about a year to live, but could opt to undergo chemotherapy to extend his life.
As you may or may not know, the survival rate of lung cancer is incredibly grim. It is estimated that the prognosis for Stage IA non-small cell lung cancer is less than 50%. Sadly, this drops as the cancer progresses. For a Stage IV patient, the likelihood of recovery is 1%. READ MORE
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Legalizing Weed Has Done What 1 Trillion Dollars and a 40 Year War Couldn’t
MARCH 6, 2016 / CULTURE OF AWARENESS
The $1 trillion War on Drugs launched by President Nixon in 1971 created the Mexican drug cartels, now legalizing weed is killing them.

By Nick Bernabe, Anti Media

(ANTIMEDIA) The Mexican drug cartels are finally meeting their match as a wave of cannabis legalization efforts drastically reshapes the drug trafficking landscape in the United States. It turns out that as states legalize cannabis use and cultivation, the volume of weed brought across the border by Mexican drug cartels dramatically decreases — and is putting a dent in their cash flow.

A newly-released statistical report from the U.S. Border Patrol shows a sharp drop-off in cannabis captured at the border between the United States and Mexico. The reduction in weed trafficking coincides with dozens of states embracing cannabis use for both medical and recreational purposes.

In fact, as the Washington Post reports, cannabis confiscations at the southern border have stumbled to the lowest point in over a decade — to only 1.5 million pounds. That’s down from a peak of four million pounds in 2009.

Speaking to Anti-Media, Amir Zendehnam, host of the popular cannabis show, “In the Clear with Amir” on Z420.tv, told us what he thinks of these new statistics:

“The economics of the cannabis industry show us that with healthy competition in the market, prices drop, quality rises, violence diminishes, and peaceful transactions increase. As constant new research emerges detailing the plant’s benefits, the negative stigma of using cannabis, both medicinally and recreationally, is diminishing, raising the demand for high quality product.

“Colorado, for example, is experiencing an economic boom that has never been seen in the state. The biggest issue in Colorado today is what to do with the huge amounts of revenue and economic success the state is gaining as a result of legalization. The Colorado model has proven that legalization reduces crime rates, cuts prices, pushes unfavorable competition out of the market, provides cleaner products with heightened transparency, and increases the standard of living for society as a whole.

“The only people hurt by continued societal acceptance and legalization of cannabis are the cartels and their friends, who have flourished for decades as a result of drug prohibition.

“As legalization spreads across the U.S. and the rest of the world like wildfire, I predict the industry will soon become one of the most dominant and beneficial industries humanity has ever seen.”

And the new competition from legal states has taken a big bite out of the entire illicit Mexican marijuana food chain. “Two or three years ago, a kilogram [2.2 pounds] of marijuana was worth $60 to $90,” a cannabis farmer in Mexico said in an interview with NPR. “But now they’re paying us $30 to $40 a kilo. It’s a big difference. If the U.S. continues to legalize pot, they’ll run us into the ground.”

Consumers are also starting to see the difference. Cheap low quality Mexican cannabis has become almost impossible to find in states that have legalized, while prices for high quality home-grown have steadily decreased.

This is good news for Mexico. A decreasing flow of cannabis trafficking throughout the country will likely lead to less cartel violence as revenues used to buy weapons dry up. Drug war-related violence in Mexico was responsible for an estimated 27,000 deaths in 2011 alone — outpacing the entire civilian death toll of the United States’ 15-year war in Afghanistan.

These developments reinforce criticism of the War on Drugs as a failed policy. Making substances like cannabis illegal simply drove the industry underground, helping make America the largest incarcerator in the world.

Legalizing cannabis will also save the United States a great deal of money. As Mint Press News reported:

“Since Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in June 1971, the cost of that “war” had soared to over $1 trillion by 2010. Over $51 billion is spent annually to fight the drug war in the United States, according to Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting more humane drug policies.”

Early reports from Colorado’s cannabis tax scheme show that revenues that will ostensibly help schools and rehabilitation efforts by flooding the state with cash. In fact, Colorado became the first state to generate more tax revenue from cannabis than alcohol in one year — $70 million.

But why stop with cannabis legalization? As more and more drug propaganda is debunked thanks to the legal weed movement, it’s time to also advocate for drug legalization across the board. The drug war’s criminalization of substances has done nothing to stem their use, and has simply turned addicts into criminals, even though plenty of experts agree that addiction is a health issue, not a criminal one. READ MORE

Cannabis capsules to replace painkillers Submitted by Jacqueline Austin March 15, 2016
Most modern medicine was created from natural sources, but over years BIG PHARMA has created Frankenstine versions by mixing different chemicals and not worrying about the SIDE EFFECTS. We need to get back to treating disease naturally, and this is a step in the right direction!

If you know any female cannabis users, you may have heard that it can be very effective at relieving menstrual cramps. Now, a company called Foria Relief has created a vaginal suppository that could replace ibuprofen, Midol or Vicodin. It’s even made with an aromatic cocoa butter base.

FORIA Relief has been carefully crafted using a delivery system intended to maximize the muscle relaxing and pain relieving properties of cannabis without inducing a psychotropic “high.” Cannabis has a long, cross-cultural history of use as a natural aid in easing symptoms associated with menstruation. Our intention is to share the powerful medicinal properties of this plant while utilizing modern extraction techniques to standardize purity and potency, thereby ensuring a safe and accessible experience for all women.
The active ingredients are extracted from pesticide-free cannabis flowers and made into exact doses—60 mg of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 10 mg of cannabidiol (CBD)—in a microbial-free process. As the manufacturer states, it does not make you high.

Foria Relief contains both THC and CBD, the two key active cannabinoid compounds found in cannabis. Together they activate certain cannabinoid receptors in the pelvic region when introduced into the body via these specially formulated suppositories. Users have reported a significant decrease in the pain and discomfort often associated with menstruation. The cannabinoids directly impact the immune system and the nerve endings of the uterus, cervix, ovaries and surrounding smooth muscle tissues. THC positively affects the nerves and assists in blocking out pain while also allowing for more pleasant signals to be received by the brain. CBD works in the immune system by suppressing the mechanisms responsible for inflammation. CBD also slows down electrical signaling to muscles and allows them to relax, thereby reducing cramping.

Since the pelvic region has more cannabinoid receptors than anywhere else in the body, this product is a logical move. We have reported on many studiesdiscovering the amazing benefits of cannabis as medicine, centered on its use to stimulate our body’s endocannabinoid systems. LINK WEBSITE

Proof Marijuana Is The Most Medicinal Plant On Earth
MARCH 19, 2016 / CULTURE OF AWARENESS By Marco Torres, PreventDisease, Thanks to Body Mind Soul Spirit
More than a dozen U.S. states have now completely decriminalized the act of possessing marijuana and both Colorado and Washington have made it legal to possess, sell, transport and cultivate the plant.

In a historic and significant moment in American history, last November, Colorado became the first US state to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The impact of the decision could soon ripple across the entire country with vast opportunities to educate millions on the top health benefits of marijuana.

With the passage of I-502 in the 2012 Washington State election, marijuana also became legal in Washington–not just for medical use, but also for recreational use–and Alaska, California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Vermont have all decriminalized marijuana.

Consumption and sale of marijuana is still illegal in all other states, though some cities and towns have passed local laws decriminalizing it or making it a low priority for law enforcement officers.

There are also movements in many states to legalize pot, including legalization bills introduced in many other states.

For other states to mimic the systems in Colorado and Washington, they will first have to get legalization laws on their ballots or in their state houses, which could post a challenge, he said.

After Washington state and Colorado passed laws in November 2012 legalizing the consumption and sale of marijuana for adults over 18, lawmakers in both states waited to see whether the federal government would continue to prosecute pot crimes under federal statutes in their states. READ MORE

Cannabis/Hemp Awareness 8 Amazing Facts About the Endocannabinoid System – and Why We Should Tell the World About It
August 20, 2017 Openhearted Rebel 1 Comment By Mary Biles, Wake Up World

Did you know your body has an endocannabinoid system? A year ago I didn’t either.

I’m no doctor, but I thought I was familiar with the key biological systems in the body. Turns out though, I was wrong. That’s because unless you’re a research scientist or work in the field of medical cannabis, it’s unlikely you’ll ever have been told about the endocannabinoid system. And yet, it has been hailed as “the most important physiologic system involved in establishing and maintaining human health.”
Why do so few people know about the endocannabinoid system?

So what’s the big mystery? Well, it might have something to do with how the endocannabinoid system (ECS) was discovered. Back in the 1990s scientists were trying to understand how THC, the psychoactive substance in the cannabis plant, elicits its effect on the body. What they uncovered was a complex network of receptors (CB1) in the brain and central nervous system that were a perfect fit for the THC molecule.

Soon after another type of receptor (CB2) was discovered in the immune system, gut and many of the body’s major organs. But that was only part of the puzzle. The hunt was on to find out whether the body produced its own cannabis-like chemicals, and with the identification of the first endocannabinoid Anandamide, they had their answer.
What does the endocannabinoid system do?

What scientists have realised is that the endocannabinoid system fine-tunes most of our vital physiological functions, bringing balance to everything from sleep, appetite, pain, inflammation, memory, mood and even reproduction. So in basic terms, it’s like a conductor of an orchestra, ensuring that no one section is drowning out the other, with the end result a perfectly harmonised symphony between body and mind.

Sounds like pretty important work, right? Well, you’d be right. That’s why it’s vital that the ECS becomes as much part of everyday parlance as the immune system. So to get the ball rolling, here are 8 fascinating facts about the totally awesome endocannabinoid system.
1. Humans aren’t alone in having an ECS

As humans beings we’re not special for having an ECS. Not only is the endocannabinoid system found in all vertebrates, but scientists also discovered cannabinoid receptors in non-vertebrate sea-squirts, suggesting an evolutionary process dating back 600 million years ago.
2. CB1 receptors are the most abundant neurotransmitter receptors in the brain

Most of us have heard of neurotransmitters – they’re the chemicals that communicate information throughout the brain and body. Serotonin and dopamine are perhaps the most well known examples, but it’s the endocannabinoid Anandamide, also classed as a neurotransmitter, that has the most receptors in the brain.
3. Endocannabinoids signal backwards

Most neurotransmitters communicate in one direction: from the signaling neuron to the postsynoptic neuron. But in the endocannabinoid system, it works in the opposite direction, which is called retrograde signaling. This means that if a receptor is being over- or under-stimulated, it signals backwards across the synapse telling the signaling neuron to change its behaviour, creating a kind of feedback loop. So in effect, rather than distributing information like other neurotransmitters, it acts like a kind of dimmer switch, turning activity up or down in order to return the body to homeostasis.
4. Increased endocannabinoid system activity has been noted in many diseases

As the endocannabinoid system’s modus operandi is to bring balance to the body, it’s no surprise then that scientists have observed elevated ECS activity in a number of illnesses. Everything from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, to rheumatoid arthritis and cancer, have shown changes in endocannabinoid levels and greater receptor expression. The conclusion that has been most widely reached is that this increased activity denotes the ECS trying to fulfil its role of returning the body to equilibrium again.

Kathy Vik is Deeply Awake, an internationally recognized author, speaker and channeler specializing in the daily life application and significance of our current planetary and individual ascensions. She represents "The Teachers," ancients who are her mentors and family. Join her as she delights in sharing her wisdom and insights in these sacred and thankfully changing times.